Timi Wahalahti (@sippis) – WordPress user profile

Timi Wahalahti

Senior developer at Evermade

@sippis Helsinki, Finland joined Jan 2015

sipp.is github.com/timiwahalahti Slack: @sippis

Maintains Events API WordCamp Site & Plugins

Teams Community Meta

Languages fi

Bio

A resident of Finland, developing WordPress websites for a living.

WordPress enthusiast, community deputy and event organiser. Passionate cyclist, usually riding a bike, running the association bureaucracy or organising cycling races. Advocating cycling as a mean of transportation and interested in better urban planning. Avid sauna goer.

WordPress Origin Story

My journey with WordPress started in the year 2009 when I was just 14 years old. We needed a new website for our scout troop and I had some experience with playing around with HTML and CSS. Eagerly with no real knowledge of building a website and not to speak about running a one in a production, I took the task.

I don’t remember exactly how we found each other with WordPress and why I ended up using it in the first place. But there’s one feeling that I do remember: excitement. Excitement on how easy it was to modify the layout and publish content.

Fast forward to 2012. I had learned more PHP and already built numerous sites with WordPress to myself, friends and small associations. My media assistant studies in vocational school contained some web development with WordPress. At this point, I was already quite familiar with it (or at least I thought then) so my teacher ended up asking me to help my classmates in that course.

Almost two years passed by and in 2014 I landed on my first job in the industry at the age of 19. It has been a ride after that.

Read the full story on my blog https://sipp.is/12-years-with-wordpress/

Badges

CODE

4 badges

Core Contributor '15 Hosting Contributor '26 Meta Contributor '18 Plugin Developer

CONTENT

1 badge

Photo Contributor '22

COMMUNITY

6 badges

B BuddyPress Contributor '21 Community Contributor '18 Community Team '18 Meetup Organizer '18 WordCamp Organizer '18 WordCamp Speaker '18

PRACTICE

1 badge

Test Contributor '23

POLYGLOTS

2 badges

Translation Contributor '15 Translation Editor '16

Current Job

Senior developer

Present

Evermade

Recent impact

Score weights high-impact work (commits, releases, approved translations, props) at 3x routine activity.

Last 30 days

3contributions

high2

medium1

score7

Last 90 days

10contributions

high7

medium3

score24

Last 12 months

29contributions

high16

medium13

score61

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 11 releases

Time commitment

4 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

Evermade

Contributions

Type

October 2026

Oct 19 Mon · 06:38

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post I am the plugin author…, on the site Translate WordPress:
PTE granted. Happy translating!

Oct 07 Wed · 09:02

Polyglots high

Translated 1 string on translate.wordpress.org.

September 2026

Sep 29 Tue · 16:02

Community high

Pull request #964 merged into WordPress/wordcamp.org:
Run WordCamp Participation Notifier when post is published

Sep 23 Wed · 08:52

Meta high

Joined the organizing team for WordCamp Europe 2027

Sep 22 Tue · 18:56

Meta high

Wrote a new post, Kriittinen tietoturvapäivitys: WordPress 7.1.2, on the site Suomi:
Tämä 7.1.2-tietoturvajulkaisu korjaa yhden kriittisen tietoturvapoikkeaman. Koska kyseessä on tietoturvapäivitys, on suositeltavaa päivittää sivustot välittömästi.…

Sep 15 Tue · 13:09

GitHub med

Created issue #348 in the wp-cli/db-command repository:
Size: separate data_length and index_length

Sep 02 Wed · 14:34

Polyglots high

Reviewed 481 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

Sep 02 Wed · 14:34

Polyglots high

Translated 65 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

August 2026

Aug 27 Thu · 19:11

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for Aikanen for Woocommerce, on the site Translate WordPress:
Granted, happy translating!

Aug 20 Thu · 06:33

Meta high

Wrote a new post, WordPress 7.1 ”Mary Lou”, on the site Suomi:
Jokainen WordPress-julkaisu juhlistaa taiteilijaa, joka on jättänyt lähtemättömän jäljen musiikkimaailmaan. WordPress 7.1, koodinimeltään ”Mary Lou”,…